Re: Features

From: Umar Goldeli <umar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 03:25:03 -0500 (EST)

Err... decompressed for transmission?

It would be better to compress for transmission and store uncompressed (or
even compressed).. basically the important bit is to save on bandwidth..
after all - regardless of the CPU hit, it's *much* cheaper to get more RAM
and CPU in the long run..

--Umar

> ZLIB is the obvious thing to use. At it's simplest, a cache item could be compressed
> before storage, and decompressed for transmission.
Received on Mon Nov 24 1997 - 01:02:31 MST

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